8 Celebrities Who Have Quit Social Media

While most of us have to deal with some trolls and negativity on social media (like that nasty comment you got on your last Music.ly vid), for celebs, it's amplified times a million. Even though they may come off as perfect people with rock hard confidence in their interviews, movies, and music videos, they're human just like the rest of us. Having millions of fans doesn't stop negative comments and rumors from becoming too much to handle, even for the most confident celeb.

So sometimes to protect themselves, they decide to take a break from social media and all the haterade and false rumors that go along with it.

Here's a rolling list of celebs that have quit social media (since they certainly won't be the last) and whether or not they decided to give it another chance.

4. Ed Sheeran (December 2015)

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Unlike most of the celebs on this list, Ed Sheeran's reason for leaving social media had nothing to do with hate. In an Instagram pic posted on December 13th, 2015, Ed explained that he was stepping away from all social media "for a while" so he could stop "seeing the world through a screen" and "travel the world and see everything [he'd] missed."

Eight months later, that post still sits at the top of his feed as his last image posted with no sign or signal that he's returning any time soon. *sob*

5. Iggy Azalea (March 2015)

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On March 5th, 2015, with no warning, Iggy Azalea deactivated her Insta. Two days later, it was back up and running, but it wasn't Iggy. It was her management, letting fans know that they were taking the reigns on her profile until further notice.

Iggy had expressed her displeasure with the ugly nature of social media and the Internet as a whole a month before when she quit Twitter (temporarily) writing:

Although Iggy never "officially" took control back from her management, she posts Insta selfies and personal tweets regularly these days, she's probably contributing to her accounts again these days.

6. Emma Stone (2013)

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Way back when Emma was still filming the Amazing Spider-Man movies with her then boyfriend Andrew Garfield, some mysterious tweets were posted to her Twitter account. The one that blew everyone's mind read "nawder nad islasehne tsintgi ni a erte." Clever fans quickly realized all that gibberish rearranged said, "Andrew and Shailene sitting in a tree."

At the time, Shailene Woodley had just been cast as Peter Parker's future love interest in the Spider-Man movies, Mary Jane Watson, and fans who were under the impression that Emma tweeted the anagram believed it might have meant there was trouble in paradise for Emma and Andrew.

As it turned out, Emma wasn't sending secret messages about her relationship to the Twitterverse — she was hacked. "I heard the other day they tweeted an anagram about Shailene Woodley, who is one of my favorite human beings on the planet, and that was absolutely, I swear to you, was not me," Emma explained on On Air With Ryan Seacrest soon after.

She deleted her account as a result and hasn't returned to Twitter since.

7. Zayn (August 2012)

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Fed up with all the hate he was receiving on Twitter, Zayn left the site in August 2012.

"The reason i don't tweet as much as i use to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that i get daily goodbye twitter," he wrote, according to the Huffington Post. "My fans that have something nice to say can tweet me on the one direction account, x."

He returned to Twitter soon after, but maybe this should have been a sign that he could easily quit something else.... like One Direction, which he left a few years later? (Still, too soon to joke about Zayn leaving?)

8. Miley Cyrus (October 2009)

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Despite Miley being insanely active on Twitter (kind of like her Instagram these days), she randomly announced in October 2009 that she was leaving the site, tweeting, "FYI Liam doesn't have a twttr & he wants ME 2 delete mine w/ gd reason."

The singer's 2 million followers were, of course, bummed and felt like she quit the site for a boy. But later, Miley took to her YouTube Channel (RIP the Miley and Mandy Show) to insist that she didn't quit the site for Liam, but to stop "living for moments" and start "living for people." Obviously, this message was delivered through rap and dance.

She's just bein' Miley, okay?

Miley returned to Twitter in 2011. It should also be noted that Liam has joined the site since then, too.

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